Timeline: November 17

December 8 2003A Greek court convicts two men as leader and chief assassin of terrorist group November 17. Thirteen others are convicted of criminal activities committed by the group, ranging from murder to possession of weapons and explosives. Four defendants are found not guilty.

March 3 2003The trial of 19 people suspected of membership of November 17 opens. On the following day, the group's suspected leader, Alexandros Giotopoulos, pleads not guilty to charges against him. He is charged with 963 crimes, including designing and planning every single November 17 attack.

January 6 2003Anestis Papanastasiou, the last of a total of 19 suspected guerrillas, is arrested and later charged with membership of the radical leftist band.

July 18 2002The first three November 17 suspects ever captured are charged.

July 17 2002Police detain Giotopoulos on the remote island of Lipsi.

July 4 2002Greek police discover the main November 17 hideout in Athens.

June 30 2002November 17 suspect Savvas Xiros is injured in a botched bomb attack in Piraeus. Police find an apartment full of weapons and November 17 paraphernalia, and say that they found his fingerprints on a car used in the 1997 killing of shipowner Costis Peratikos.

June 8 2000British defence attache Brigadier Stephen Saunders is shot and killed in his car by two attackers on a motorcycle while driving to work at the British embassy in Athens. British defence attache shot dead in Athens

May 28 1997Shipping businessman Mr Peratikos is killed as he leaves his office in the port of Piraeus.

1994A former governor of the National Bank of Greece, Michalis Vranopoulos, is gunned down in central Athens in January. Turkish diplomat Omer Haluk Sipahioglu is shot dead outside his coastal home in July.

July 14 1992A rocket attack on the car of finance minister Ioannis Paleokrassas in central Athens misses its target, but kills a passer-by.

1991In March, US air force sergeant Ronald Stewart is killed by a remote-controlled bomb. In October, the Turkish deputy press attache, Cetin Gorgu, is shot dead in his car outside his home.

1989Government lawyer Costas Androulidakis is shot in the Athens suburb of Zografou in January. He dies five weeks later. In September, Pavlos Bakoyiannis, an MP from the centre-right New Democracy party, is shot dead at the entrance to his office in central Athens.

1988Industrialist Alexandros Athanasiadis is shot five times in his car, dying in the March attack. In June, a US naval attache, Captain William Nordeen, is killed by a remote-controlled bomb near his home in the northern Athens suburb of Kifissia.

April 8, 1986Industrialist Dimitris Angelopoulos is killed in central Athens.

February 21 1985In February, newspaper publisher Nikos Momferatos and his driver, Panayotis Rousetis, are shot dead in central Athens. Policeman Nikos Georgakopoulos is killed in November when a police riot squad bus is blown up in central Athens.

1984US flight sergeant Robert Chant is shot near a military base in April, and later dies. A Greek policeman, Christos Matis, is shot dead in December as November 17 rob a bank in Athens.

November 15 1983George Tsantes, a US military attache, is shot dead in his car. His driver is also killed.

January 16 1980Pandelis Petrou, the deputy head of the Greek riot police, is shot dead along with his driver, Sotiris Stamoulis.

December 14 1976November 17 shoots Evangelos Mallios, a former officer accused of torture under the military junta, dead.

December 23 1975Richard Welch, the CIA's chief officer in Greece, is shot dead and November 17 - which takes its name from the date on which a student revolt was crushed in 1973 (see below) - claims responsibility for its first political killing.

November 17 1973Greece's ruling military junta, which held power from 1967-74, sends tanks into an Athens university to crush a student revolt, killing at least 13 students.